Charles Wish

California artist best known for visually fusing American Regionalist styles with 16th - 19th century South Asian, Tantra & Buddhist motifs.

Seasonably confronting the information age challenges of extreme cultural contrariety and cross-cultural interaction, Charles Wish (born Frederick Charles Peters VIII, Los Angeles, California 1971, BFA University of Arizona, 1993) draws from a diverse range of influences to deliver his style of "Neo-regionalist” paintings. Sighting local giants like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton, as well as the many anonymous artisans of a foreign, primal world, he combines the esoteric ontology of a nonage civilization with some of provincial-America’s most selfsame symbols and scenes. After spending four years (1999-2003) in a Ramakrishna, Hindu monastery, Wish would return to the San Fernando Valley, California not far from where he spent his formative years. It is here, along with his wife Abbigail, where he continues to reside and paint today.

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